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WORKS



FEMMO Issue 1, 2, 3 (2014) 4, 5, 6 (2015)


Virginia Fraser and Elvis Richardson
screen print on cotton 1400x1100mm


The artists Virginia Fraser and Elvis Richardson have adopted a curatorial pose to collaborate on a series of magazine covers, combining portraiture with attention-seeking headlines for a so-far fictional publication FEMMO™. Where other curators might select, arrange and present tangible and digital objects in galleries, the editors of FEMMO™ have organised indexical text objects on a (very big) page.

FEMMO™ promises articles its producers would like to read. FEMMO™ imagines a world where feminism is central to, and informs, every topic. In particular FEMMO™ has fun with the artworld’s gender biased status-quo. The National Library of Australia declined to issue FEMMO™ with an International Standard Serial Number because it had “no content”. FEMMO™ disagrees. FEMMO™ is joining the surface litter of Australian art history.















EXHIBITED

Femmo has been exhibited at The Dolls House (image above)

2017 Unfinished Business ACCA, Melbourne

2016 Vote for me! FORMAT, Adelaide
︎︎︎READ ARTLINK REVIEW BY ANDREW PURVIS

2016 Fremantle Print Prize (2nd prize), Fremantle Arts Centre
︎︎︎SEE PRIZE CATALOGUE

2016 Art for Social Change Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, MooneePonds

2015 FEMMO™ solo @ Boxcopy, Brisbane

2015 Fremantle Print Prize (highly commended), Fremantle Arts Centre

2015 FEMMO™ solo @ Dollhouse, Melbourne

2014 Benglis 73/74 Sutton Project Space, Melbourne curated by Geoff Newton

2014 Curating Feminism Sydney College of the Arts Galleries & Contemporary Art and Feminism conference

RE-RAISING CONCIOUSNESS @ TCB Melbourne














FEMMO Issues 1,2,3 (2014) 4,5,6 (2015)
Virginia Fraser and Elvis Richardson
Silkscreen on cotton, 140x110cm.
Printed by Spacecraft.

Edition 1 issues 1,2,3,4,5,6 donated by Elvis Richardson to Sheila Foundation,
Edition 4 issues 1,2,4,5,6 donated by Elvis Richardson to Heide Museum of Art
Edition 5 issues 1,2,3,4,5,6 donated by Elvis Richardson to Art Gallery of Ballarat.   






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